A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered
the art of leadership "Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all
but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of
them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains
how this came to be." -H.W. Brands, Wall Street Journal In 1849,
when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two
seemingly uninspiring years in the U.S. House of Representatives,
his political career appeared all but finished. His sense of
failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet
within a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of
the Republican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep
America together during its most perilous period. What accounted
for the turnaround? As Michael J. Gerhardt reveals, Lincoln's
reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in which he
read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory,
and political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men,
some of whom he had never met but others of whom he knew
intimately-Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd
Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their experiences and his own,
Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership, mastering party
politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using
executive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory,
and-what would become his most enduring legacy-developing policies
and rhetoric to match a constitutional vision that spoke to the
monumental challenges of his time. Without these mentors, Abraham
Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer-and without
Lincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived.
This book tells the unique story of how Lincoln emerged from
obscurity and learned how to lead.
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